Gemma Taylor

A bit about Gemma Taylor

Baby media are highly prevalent in children’s day-to-day lives including storybooks, children’s television, DVDs, video games and more recently, mobile apps. I am interested in how infants and young children learn from baby media. During my PhD at the University of Sheffield, I looked at the relationship between infant visual attention when learning from television and learning outcome. I have since completed a Post-Doc at Binghamton University in New York looking at the role of visual attention on the transfer deficit, a phenomenon whereby infants and young children typically learn less from baby media than they do from a live interaction.

My Role in LuCiD

I am a Research Associate and Babylab Manager at Lancaster University. Within LuCiD, I am investigating word learning by infants and young children aged between 6-months and 3 years. Specifically, I am looking at how infants and young children transfer words learnt from baby media to the 3D world.